The BrightZone^sm Management Team

Roxann (Roxy) Caraway

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Personal Education

BA, Structural Design, Northern Montana College

Workshops and Certifications

General Accounting -- Certified -- Gt. Falls Commercial College

Understanding Netware -- Novell Certified

Responsive Information Management Systems -- Certified -- Digital Information Management

Certified Art Instuctor/Oils

Public Sector Volunteer Experience

Precinct Committee Person - Blaine Co., Montana

Co-Author -- Farm Relief Act of 1986

Director -- St. Thomas Catechetical Program

Tutor/Mentor -- West Union Elementary School -- West Union, OR

Private Sector Experience

Roxy served as Director of Information Technology for Electric Umbrella and Thornton Literary Agency.  Her efforts led to the following results:

First Online Literary Agency – Featured in Writers Digest and Publishers Weekly – Fall 1996

Distributed secure eBooks with SoftLock, PDF Merchant and Rocket eBooks

Implemented GlassBook server

Beta Tested and implemented Adobe PDF Merchant – Featured by Adobe at Seybold 2000 (Boston – Feb. 2000).  First working commercial version of PDF Merchant.

Roxy then went on to form JAQKAR, a publishing services firm, which developed numerous unique approaches to bundling an array of services that provided simple and economical solutions for complex content development and distribution problems faced by content owners as a result of the convergence of print media with the digital world.

Projects:

ePluribus Media: A 501(c)(4) tax-exempt, non-partisan cooperative organization of citizen volunteers dedicated to researching issues of common concern and encouraging the highest standards of ethics and journalism. Roxy helped with the development of the web design and deployment strategy.

American Association on Mental Retardation: 2000-2006

Prepare legacy documents (books and other learning tools) and make them available (via their proprietary Oracle database) for delivery in multiple electronic and print formats to customers and end users.  Design and maintain retail ecommerce website for delivery of repurposed content.  This included creating and entering metadata and tagging of all documents and supporting detail. 

San Jose Public Library: 2004

Scan and OCR out of print reference book for delivery as individual learning objects via their  electronic library system.

Portland State University: 2003-2004

Design and develop a CD delivery system for delivery of interactive a masters level course in  graphics.  This project resulted in the CD/DVD delivery program eContent Fusion^sm that is  now being used by several publishers and university systems to supplement and enhance  their course offerings. This project involved de-construction of existing legacy courseware for  digital consumption.

Arizona Department of Education: 2001

Using Access database as the core file(s), created queries and reports to collate into year- end budget report for delivery as a web-based document and for other electronic delivery  purposes.

Disney Corporate: 1999

Consulted and advised in the design and implementation of data storage and retrieval   system to consolidate a number of individual data storage systems. Over 70,000 individual objects were catalogued and stored during this project.

Consistency of Data (data management)

Rights Management

Easy search and retrieval of text, image and multimedia components

Nike: 1998-1999

Designed and implemented the online Nike Knowledge Base for their Systems Support Department.

Scan and OCR legacy documents used in support of 241 in-house systems

Create SQL database for storage and retrieval of Knowledge Base objects

Create metadata libraries for use in data entry

Create intuitive search capabilities for retrieval of information from the Nike Knowledge Base by support agents.

Write documentation (RoboHelp) for end-users of the Nike Knowledge Base system.